Elizabeth's oven

[gjbingham]

Originally Posted by dmun

Your dome will progress sort of the way it wants. Once you start slinging mud, you will find your dreams of ideal geometry will fade.

Wow! That's a quote worth writing down and committing to memory. I think dmun should have further specified "quicky fade", but otherwise, a complete an accurate description of the building process.

Liz - work naked. That will keep your neighbor's mouth shut about man's work. Looking good so far!

[Frances]

Its looking really good! You'll be fitting your keystone in no time...

Oh and btw, I've been meaning to say... you don't look old enough to have kids who are leaving home...

[egalecki]

Originally Posted by Frances

Its looking really good! You'll be fitting your keystone in no time...

Oh and btw, I've been meaning to say... you don't look old enough to have kids who are leaving home...

Thank you most sincerely. I assure you I am. My oldest actually turns 21 this year.

Rain today, so I'll clean house, since my mom and dad are coming for graduation. I have doggie tumbleweeds the size of Texas to vacuum up. The keystone will have to wait a bit...

[egalecki]

There's been no progress on the oven front- the weekend went to graduation and a family reunion. And my parents arrived a day earlier than I expected, so I was on my hands and knees scrubbing my kitchen floor when they got here! And my brother, who I was not expecting until the next day, arrived as well- he called when he was an hour away and so I spent the next hour frantically rearranging furniture so he and his wife could stay in the room where our children in transit store their furniture... (they don't move back in, just their stuff...) not my usual thing to do at 10 at night, but it was all ok.

I did manage not to cry all over the girls, but it was a struggle. If you look carefully in the second picture, Mr. Wilson appears without a hat, but still with his sunglasses...

totally off topic, but hey, I'm proud of them!

[mfiore]

Originally Posted by egalecki

totally off topic, but hey, I'm proud of them!

You've every reason to be proud, honors and everything! Congratulations!

[gjbingham]

Congrats on the graduation. You're new life awaits you. Time to do all those things you've dreamed of all these years.

[Frances]

Originally Posted by gjbingham

Time to do all those things you've dreamed of all these years.

...like building a WFO? And hey, where are you dungarees anyway??

It must be lovely seeing your grown up children doing well. Congratulations!

[egalecki]

At last! I can work again! No more company, no more sick kids (and thankfully, no mononucleosis!) and the weather is finally normal for June, not late August. Although it's still too hot to wear my overalls...

I did the soldier course and the sides of the arch today. The it went pretty well, I think. I put a strip of newspaper under the soldiers so I didn't inadvertently mortar them to the hearth.

Tomorrow I am going to work out the arch, make the form, and start the first ring. I hope.

[asudavew]

Woohoo... .The fun has begun.

Keep us up to date.

Looks good so far!

Dave

[Frances]

Great! I have the feeling you're just going to breeze through this.

Keep the picture coming...